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“There is great opportunity in realizing a game everyone implicitly assumes is zero-sum isn't.”
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@paulg tweet (2020-12-19)
João Tomé
Writer
After almost two decades in journalism, I turn complex Internet trends into multimedia narratives. From 2021 to July 2026, I worked with Cloudflare teams to connect global data to real-world stories that reveal how the Internet works and where it's heading.
TechnologyData StorytellingPodcastingJournalism
Latest Writing
From Cloudflare Blog, Substack, Medium, and a Portuguese journalism archive.
Where Did the Stop Button Go? Raising a 10-Year-Old in 2026
SubstackAug 2026
“Playback”: um filme sem a chama (e alegria) de Carlos Paião
SubstackAug 2026
Five Years Telling Stories About the Internet Through Data
SubstackAug 2026
The Odyssey: the journey is the message
SubstackJul 2026
Back to the Gulbenkian Art Library, 26 Years Later
SubstackJul 2026
How I set up my own email domain without paying for Google Workspace
SubstackJun 2026
From the Cloudflare Blog
Popular writing
A top five selected from my Cloudflare Blog writing, including Offline Celebrations, Total Eclipse of the Internet and Typo Traps. Show more for the extended list.
Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior
CloudflareFeb 2025
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
CloudflareApr 2024
Typo traps: analyzing traffic to exmaple.com (or is it example.com?)
CloudflareSep 2023
The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals
CloudflareAug 2025
From Googlebot to GPTBot: who's crawling your site in 2025
CloudflareJul 2025
Projects
Selected projects across podcasts, data storytelling, editorial products, and experiments.
This Week in NET
Cloudflare's weekly show on Internet trends, security, and technology. 200+ episodes, produced and hosted from 2022 to 2026.
PodcastEditorialCloudflare
Cloudflare Blog
Data-led reporting and analysis of Internet trends, traffic shifts, security incidents, AI, and major global events. 80+ published posts.
WritingData StorytellingInternet Trends
Made in Tech
Portuguese-language tech podcast covering innovation, careers, and the Internet. Co-hosted with Dinheiro Vivo, reaching thousands of listeners in Portugal.
PodcastPortuguese
Focus & Life
A source-aware knowledge library of quotations, ideas and historical moments across science, technology, literature, philosophy, art and music.
Knowledge LibraryCultureHistory
Radar Display
Cloudflare's globe-based real-time visualization platform — showing live Internet traffic, attacks, and trends. Product manager and lead data editor.
ProductData VisualizationCloudflare Radar
World Cup 2026 Dashboard
How the 2026 World Cup moved the Internet — real-time traffic shifts, country-by-country breakdowns, and match-day patterns.
Data StorytellingInternet Trends
2026 Eclipse Internet Traffic Tracker
An interactive analysis of Internet traffic during the 12 August 2026 total solar eclipse, using country and regional Cloudflare Radar data.
Data StorytellingCloudflare RadarInternet Traffic
Are summer nights getting warmer?
A city-by-city comparison of May–August 2026 temperatures, overnight minimums, and historical baselines across Europe and North America.
Data StorytellingClimateInteractive Dashboard
Ask Emot
An AI agent trained on my work and writing — answers questions about Internet trends, Cloudflare data, and my background.
AI AgentCloudflare Workers
Casa Magia
A Harry Potter-themed site of book covers and games — a creative project made for my kid.
CreativeFamily
Time Capsule
A site for writing messages meant for the future — exploring memory, privacy, and delayed communication.
CreativeEditorial
Starlink World Penetration
An interactive map tracking where Starlink traffic is growing — built from Cloudflare Radar data.
Data VisualizationCloudflare Radar
Hacker News CF Board
A live board surfacing Cloudflare-related posts and discussions on Hacker News in real time.
Real-timeEditorial Tool
Engineering Meetups
Site for the Cloudflare Lisbon engineering community — events, speakers, and recaps.
CommunityEvents
Socials & Blog Analytics
Internal dashboards tracking performance of the Cloudflare Blog and social channels — used by the comms team.
AnalyticsInternal
This Week in NET
Cloudflare's weekly show on Internet trends, AI, security, and technology, produced and hosted from 2022 to 2026. thisweekinnet.com
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Professional Journey
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Sr. Data Editor, Writer, Storyteller
Cloudflare
2021 - Jul 2026
Led data analysis and storytelling initiatives focused on Internet technology trends. Product Manager of the Internet trends project Radar Display. Hosted and produced the show/podcast "This Week in NET", from 2022 to 2026. Wrote 80+ posts for The Cloudflare Blog.
Podcaster
Made in Tech
2020 - 2023
Hosting and producing a podcast focused on technology's impact on society, featuring interviews with notable figures in tech and science.
Website coordinator and Editor
Dinheiro Vivo
2017 - 2021
Editor of the related tech magazine publication DN Insider. Coordinated the business and tech news website, managed its social media, and led multimedia content production.
Journalist at the TV show Volante
SIC
2011 - 2016
Host, journalist reviewer of cars and motorcycles for the TV show of SIC Notícias, Volante.
Freelance Journalist
Notícias Magazine, Sábado magazine, Must magazine
2008 - 2020
Contributed feature articles with interviews of well-known cinema and TV actors and directors; wrote about technology, gadgets, and innovation; and did cinema reviews.
Editor
Destak Portugal
2004 - 2016
Led the Sports, Cinema, Automotive, and Technology sections at Destak Portugal, producing reviews, interviews, and reports, managing digital platforms — while collaborating on external projects, including a TV show (SIC).
A thought for today
One idea. One moment in history.
A daily pairing from science, technology, culture, history and the arts.
On this day
1853
Vladimir Shukhov was born
Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)
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From Focus & Life, a knowledge library I built.
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Cloudflare Radar Display
Conceived and led as Product Manager and Data Editor — a real-time globe experience visualizing how the Internet behaves worldwide. It shows traffic patterns, outages, AI trends, attacks, connection quality, and the most popular Internet services by country.
Featured on large touchscreens at Cloudflare offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, Lisbon, Singapore, and New York, and at events and partner venues worldwide.
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Email Me
For professional inquiries or collaboration opportunities, feel free to send me an email.
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— Journalist at heart. Creator of ideas. Explorer. It's all about passion — and it's been that way since the 1980s.
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(Where quotes, loose thoughts, and messy experiments live.)
Interviewing Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince for This Week in NET — talking about AI, Cloudflare's history, and what's ahead.
Lisbon office, September 2024 [Watch on YouTube]
Earthrise — Apollo 8, December 24, 1968